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David E. Heckerman — 119 Patents

Microsoft: 107 patents #54 of 40,388Top 1%
Amazon: 9 patents #1,701 of 19,158Top 9%
Bellevue, WA: #35 of 6,950 inventorsTop 1%
Washington: #177 of 76,902 inventorsTop 1%
Overall (All Time): #10,137 of 4,157,543Top 1%
119 Patents All Time
David E. Heckerman has been granted 119 US patents while listed as an inventor at Microsoft. The first was granted in 1997 and the most recent in July 2025. David E. Heckerman ranks #10,137 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 0.24%). Patent records list David E. Heckerman in Bellevue, WA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1997 to 2025Bar chart with a peak of 10 patents in 2008.peak 101997: 4 patents19971998: 2 patents1999: 1 patents2000: 4 patents20002001: 9 patents2002: 5 patents2003: 7 patents20032004: 5 patents2005: 2 patents2006: 8 patents20062007: 9 patents2008: 10 patents2009: 8 patents20092010: 6 patents2011: 8 patents2012: 7 patents20122013: 6 patents2014: 1 patents2015: 1 patents20152016: 3 patents2019: 2 patents2020: 2 patents20202023: 1 patents2024: 5 patents2025: 3 patents2025

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 26–50 of 119 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
8250159 Message rendering for identification of content features Bryan T. Starbuck, Robert L. Rounthwaite, Joshua T. Goodman 2012-08-21 $14,505,000
8209181 Personal audio-video recorder for live meetings Robert L. Rounthwaite 2012-06-26 $23,366,000
8182424 Diary-free calorimeter 2012-05-22 $19,852,000
8140569 Dependency network based model (or pattern) Geoffrey J. Hulten, David M. Chickering 2012-03-20 $19,292,000
8121797 T-cell epitope prediction Carl M. Kadie, Jennifer Listgarten, Noah Aaron Zaitlen, Nebojsa Jojic 2012-02-21 $20,261,000
8103537 Decision theoretic approach to targeted solicitation by maximizing expected profit increases D. Maxwell Chickering 2012-01-24 $16,228,000
8065345 Visualization as input mechanism George G. Robertson, Jason Carlson, Brian Scott Ruble, Sean Boon, Jakob Peter Nielsen +3 more 2011-11-22 $15,326,000
8050870 Identifying associations using graphical models Jonathan M. Carlson, Carl M. Kadie 2011-11-01 $25,152,000
8000900 Association-based predictions of pathogen characteristics Simon Mallal, Carl M. Kadie, Corey Benjamin Moore, Nebojsa Jojic 2011-08-16 $15,401,000
7983959 Systems and methods for estimating placement positions of content items on a rendered page David M. Chickering, Christopher A. Meek, Brian Burdick, Li Li, Murali Vajjiravel +5 more 2011-07-19 $14,062,000
7953738 System and method for visualization of categories David M. Chickering, Zhaohui Tang, Robert L. Rounthwaite, Alexei Bocharov, Scott Conrad Oveson 2011-05-31 $19,253,000
7930353 Trees of classifiers for detecting email spam David M. Chickering, Geoffrey J. Hulten, Robert L. Rounthwaite, Christopher A. Meek, Joshua T. Goodman 2011-04-19 $17,129,000
7908151 Get prep questions to ask doctor Pablo Argon, Behrooz Chitsaz, Hong L. Choing, James R. Hamilton, Nuria M. Oliver +4 more 2011-03-15 $22,634,000
7885905 False discover rate for graphical models Jennifer Listgarten, Carl M. Kadie 2011-02-08 $17,009,000
7831627 Dependency network based model (or pattern) David M. Chickering, Geoffrey J. Hulten 2010-11-09 $17,265,000
7814035 Large-scale information collection and mining Craig J. Mundie, Nebojsa Jojic, Randy Hinrichs 2010-10-12 $16,215,000
7689458 Systems and methods for determining bid value for content items to be placed on a rendered page David M. Chickering, Christopher A. Meek, Brian Burdick, Li Li, Murali Vajjiravel +5 more 2010-03-30 $17,166,000
7660705 Bayesian approach for learning regression decision graph models and regression models for time series analysis Christopher A. Meek, Robert L. Rounthwaite, David M. Chickering, Bo Thiesson 2010-02-09 $23,520,000
7647285 Tools for health and wellness Craig J. Mundie, Nebojsa Jojic, Randy Hinrichs 2010-01-12 $31,942,000
7644094 System and method for processing a large data set using a prediction model having a feature selection capability 2010-01-05 $31,776,000
7640313 Adaptive junk message filtering system Robert L. Rounthwaite, Joshua T. Goodman, John C. Platt, Carl M. Kadie 2009-12-29 $28,457,000
7630916 Systems and methods for improving collaborative filtering Jesper Lind, Carl M. Kadie, Christopher A. Meek 2009-12-08 $24,284,000
7617010 Detecting instabilities in time series forecasting Alexei Bocharov, David M. Chickering 2009-11-10 $34,464,000
7580813 Systems and methods for new time series model probabilistic ARMA Bo Thiesson, Christopher A. Meek, David M. Chickering 2009-08-25 $29,810,000
7562064 Automated web-based targeted advertising with quotas David M. Chickering 2009-07-14 $33,585,000